New Lantern
Backend Software Engineer
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Nov 14, 2025
- Experience
- 4+ years of progressive experience building and maintaining complex, high-performance web applications in cloud environments.
About the job
Builds and maintains the backend of an AI-enabled radiology platform, including image-data processing, LLM inference, and transmission of completed medical reports.
What you'll do
- Own delivery of platform features, often using Python and Django, and improve application quality through automated testing, error handling, and recovery.
- Collaborate with radiologists, clinical and IT staff, and frontend developers to discover needs, validate solutions, and improve performance and reliability.
- Participate in an on-call or customer support engineering rotation.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of progressive experience building and maintaining complex, high-performance web applications in cloud environments.
- Experience with Python and a Python web framework; Django is preferred within this requirement.
- Experience using AI/LLM-based tools for software development and problem-solving.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, with product focus and end-to-end ownership across design, implementation, testing, and monitoring.
Nice to have
- Experience with reliable LLM/ML systems, web performance and database optimization, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, data pipelines, or systems programming.
- Full-stack experience, ideally with Typescript/React; familiarity with radiology, medical imaging, or related fields.
Tools
Python, Django, Terraform, Kubernetes, Typescript, React, Claude Code, Cursor
AI focus
Runs LLM inference tasks to assist users and builds an AI-enabled radiology platform; requires using AI/LLM-based tools for software development.
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